Several businesses are helping thousands of local keiki go back to school.

The Office Depot Foundation donated 2,000 new sackpacks filled with school supplies to several local non-profit organizations, schools and agencies as part of its National Backpack Program.

The recipients — the state Department of Education, Iroquois Point Elementary, Parents and Children Together, Partners in Development Foundation and Special Parent Information Network — were chosen in part by local Office Depot and OfficeMax stores.

Each non-branded sackpack holds a zippered pouch containing essential school supplies: a pen, a pencil, four crayons, a pencil sharpener, an eraser and a 6-inch ruler.

In all, the foundation will donate 350,000 sackpacks to children in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and a number of other countries this year.

Meanwhile, Servco is also donating backpacks filled with school supplies to hundreds of local first-graders this week.

The backpacks are being given to every first-grader at four schools with higher populations of at-risk keiki across the island: Kauluwela Elementary, Kahaluu Elementary, Puuhale Elementary and Waianae Elementary.

This year marks the sixth anniversary of the Servco-employee school-supply drive.